21st May 2014, 06:17 PM
carl sagan: pale blue dot
"From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived thereâon the mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
hermann hesse: the glass bead game
"There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught"
albert camus: the outsider
"Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said"
william faulkner - the sound and the fury
"...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools."
virginia woolf: orlando
"Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that"
jean m auel: clan of the cave bear
because of Ayla one otherwise boring christmas!
simone de beauvoir: the mandarins
for gutting intellectual elitism
robert musil: the man without qualities
for teaching me patience
aldous huxley: island
âArmaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are over-consuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.â
gabriel garcia marquez: one hundred years of solitude
a joy from start to finish
"From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived thereâon the mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
hermann hesse: the glass bead game
"There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught"
albert camus: the outsider
"Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said"
william faulkner - the sound and the fury
"...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools."
virginia woolf: orlando
"Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that"
jean m auel: clan of the cave bear
because of Ayla one otherwise boring christmas!
simone de beauvoir: the mandarins
for gutting intellectual elitism
robert musil: the man without qualities
for teaching me patience
aldous huxley: island
âArmaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are over-consuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.â
gabriel garcia marquez: one hundred years of solitude
a joy from start to finish
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers